Landscape Architects
Welcome Sponge City
Our Parco Casarico project is listed as a reference project for the Swiss Sponge City Initiative.
Time to adapt and redesign water management in cities. But how?
With the “sponge city principle”, rainwater is viewed as a valuable resource instead of a liability. A promising approach to counter the challenges of climate change in increasingly populated urban areas.
Article on Hochparterre Magazine
An inspiring shot of our Parco Casarico project was just published by the Swiss design magazine Hochparterre. Thank you to our beloved photographer Caroline Goddard and to journalists Maarit Stroebele & Mirjam Rombach for the daring interpretation of our work that lies somewhere between digital dreamscape and designed wilderness.
Binding Innovation Award for Biodiversity 2022
The Parco Casarico housing project in Sorengo wins the Binding Innovation Award for Biodiversity 2022. [...] the landscape architects designed a highly attractive living environment while increasing the diversity of natural habitats and species.
Vancouver Sun Article
Story by Brian Minter: Strode and De Molfetta are guiding landscape architecture in a new direction.
It’s always enlightening to discover and explore how today’s garden designs are evolving and moving in new directions. A lecture by two renowned landscape architects on Oct. 28 at Vancouver’s Robson Square was a great opportunity to learn more about some new ecological landscape trends.
ETH Zürich Talk
Invited talk by Hope Strode on novel ecosystems and climate change adapted environments in Ticino, for Prof. Dr. Elli Mosayebi’s studio at ETH
Villa Costanza Park in the ‘Best of 2022’
Villa Costanza Park is selected among 20 projects that are nominated in the Hochparterre landscape category for 'Die Besten 2022'
UBC SALA 2022 Garden Design Lecture
UBC Robson Square, 800 Robson Street, Vancouver, BC - Canada
The University of British Columbia School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture annual Garden Design Lecture returns with Federico De Molfetta and Hope Strode of Swiss landscape architecture partnership De Molfetta & Strode.
Their work strives to create poetic power of landscape and a sense of connection and meaning to each site. In our digital age, to bring together ecology with the culture of place, and climate adaption, may be the future of garden design.
Cincinnati Landscape Workshop
Guest lecture and workshop by Hope Strode for Prof. Sang Cho the University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP)
Lugano, the presence of water
Public lecture organized by i2a (the International Institute for Architecture in Ticino) discussing our Waterfront Masterplan proposal and the potential of a recovered relationship of the city with its waters
HSLU Summer School Ticino 2022
Invited lecture and student projects review at the Hochschule Luzern Summer workshop in Val di Blenio, Ticino
LILA Landscape Award 2022
Parco Casarico is shortlisted in the Residential category for the Landezine International Landscape Award LILA 2022
Designing the Future
Lecture at Sichuan Agricultural University - China
Bartlett Super Crit
Hope Strode invited to Prof. Aisling O’Carroll’s Landscape Architecture Review at the Bartlett School of Architecture
Anthos One Publication
Parco Casarico is published among 15 ‘Best of’ projects from Switzerland in the first edition of the Anthos magazine, published by Hochparterre and the National Swiss Landscape Architects Association (BSLA/FSAP)
Politecnico di Milano Lecture
LILA Landscape Award 2018
Garden of Seven Moments is shortlisted in the Garden category for the Landezine International Landscape Award LILA 2018
Article on espazium.ch
De Molfetta Strode's early works showcase the dynamic character of landscape elements. The message is clear: bring nature into the built environment.
3 driving ideas are at the base of this landscape concept: Ecological continuity through vegetation, hydrological activation of the existing topography, and fluidity of public accessibility across the site.
Building on the extensive existing plant collection, the project creates a series of unique environments and experiences linked by a new path.
In this garden, every moment is also a specific place in time, intimately connected to the surrounding landscape through views or trails.